The Sun. — London, England, 1826-03-30 00:00:00

•rit E 140 N DO N J 0 tJAN ,Rgiracttfiv» , the Morning i apers,March 30,18Q6. [tßotuarlND HERALD.] The integrity of her merchants has hitherto been the proud boast of England ; ,not that com mon honesty ought to be so much a matter of exultation, us the want of it formi a subject both of national and individual disgrace. If any one description of persons are called upon to display a more strict degree of integrity than others, it `should be those in whom the greatest confidence is necessarily placed—we mean Men who act In the capacity of Bankers ; but we fear that the lute ,failures among this description of people, and: the disclosures which are now taking place in 'consequence of them, are calculated to throw a degree of discredit upon them, which carries with it. a degree of degradation, which is cal 'culated to shake confidence both at home and abroad, in a way which has never occurred be fore. Accustomed as we are to call things by their right names, and never to blink the truth, however unfortunate or untoward it may appear, We know of no other term but that of ac tual robbery which can be applied to the conduct of persons, who, it is clear, have been spending as income that which they must have known could never constitute it, and who have been living in audacious affluence upon deposits, which were a sacred trust, which they were bound to possess either in money or money's worth, every day of their lives. We need not allude to particular instanees,for unfortunately there are too many to "render it necessary, Wherein persons of this des cription seem to have violated every principal of common houesty, .and have bolstered up a fie ' titious credit, by acts which only differ from, .by exalting in enormity, those for which. lesser offenders crowd our gaols, while they show the inequality of our Penal Code. We do not wish to deal harshly with men who have hitherto maintained respectable stations in life; but truth compels us to declare, that the higher the rank .and :station of any man who uses it to impose upon and defraud others, the stronger ought to be the public indignation at his conduct, and the disgrace and punish ment which. ought to follow it. The trade of ,a banker has hitherto, we know not why, been considered one of the most honourable callings in. the mercantile world. Money, even more then knowledge, is considered power ; and to he entrusted with-the stoney of others, bespeaks a degree of conlidence,:and gives a degree of con» sequence, not to be met with in any other de partment. lint when we see meni whose actions, when dragged to light, show that they have only possessed that confidence and power to abuse it, and who, with their own ruin, draw down that of the people whose confidence they have grossly abused, we do blush for our country, and for the apparent inequality of the laws, which seem to employ net catches the Small fry, but through which tlingresit Leviathans can escape. Many of these persons ton were iyMulktibte, we hear, . for their apparent sanctity—sop.. pressers of vies', no doubt, in the ilivtrOpollB— Missionary leaders amid spokesmen in the provinces. We have been told of nee, whole firm, is ho would not so much as open their letters on a Sunday, but who robbed every person who confided them, and have involved hundreds in ruin. These things, we repeat, are a scaedal to ou'r age and country. They are a national disgrace, which nothing can wipe out ; and to talk of our integrity and ho nour as. proverbial, while such arts of plunder avid swiodling as these are every day developed,' is a species of imposition and of humbug which Cannot he too warmly execrated, or too generally exposed, ‘Ve hear, toe, of no sorrow—of no shame, or no contrition among these- people,— but some of them actually retaining their places in society, and acting us if common decency were a quality wholly unknown to them. Really we 'know ,not of what the world is made when it puts . up with such audacious bearing. And if such doings are countenanced and submitted to, instead of hying visited, as they ought to be, with indignation and disgust, there is an end of thole ties which hind men together in society, and in- MOO of honest y. being a virtue, and its opposite ,i 3 disgrai'e, we may as well become a society of ~freebootcrs, mid, prey upon each other without appreheosion or remorse.. AIr.•PI:EL' Bin for amending tlif. ndmi►►istrn Oen or the criminal law has been printed, and now appears with the amendments made in it lsy the Corrotsittee. That the measure in question is cairn lilted to promote the cadet, more impar tial, and more etrectuat administration of criminal jogtice, only two things urn necessary to convince the public—ist, to read the Bill ; and 2d, to reroutes, or inquire into, the almost innumerable imperfections of the old law and practice for which the present one affords n decisive remedy., Tho preamble asserts only the expedieney of de— fining under 44 what circumstances Pec4on3 may " in, ndrOitte4l t o ball in cat , es of felony, anti of " making better provision for taking examhut. , Hens, informations, bailments, and recogni " v,rinces, nod returning the same to the proper 64 tribunals." This ii, a modest and unpretend ing preface to a most extensive work. The pro. %failing clot rarterioics of the measure are, science and consistency, in place of the grossest incon. gruity ; and practical simplieity, where every thing before wa eiNtraekill. The result, we have ttai beNita lion in saying, is likely to be a inure eirectna I punishment of crinies,-and of course a di al i n otioo of their frequency. Otia of the goo,' !tortoises announced in the early part of the bill, is to relax, in favour of substantial justice, that which has been so often regarded as, in the ex. o .. s s to which it hod been carried, a reproach to our air/jolt (and Wr night add to our civil). jurispiudenee,--tho technical pedantry of the proceedings and ocitten instruments, whereby ; the guilty are saved, and the defence c o on aence is perhaps often almost as Much gged as assisted. Among the chief provisions of the wrcanire are, that %here, in the opiniim of on, 4 "tite l it strong presumption of felony shall have been made out against a party, no bail shall be takep,_but,the party shall be committed to gaol. And Where, in the opinion of two Justices, a strong presumption of felony shall not have been raked, but still ground enough be es tablished for a judicial inquiry into the case, the part; may be bailed, under a clause, which amends the Ist and 2d Philip and Mary, c. 13, and the '2d and 3d of the same reign, a. 10, that before any two Justices shall bail, or any one Justice imprison, all the examinations, informa tions, &c. shall be written down, certified, and signed, the witnesses bound over, and the whole of these preliminary proceedings returned into Court at its opening. • The same in cases of misdemeanor. Similar powers are given, and duties prescribed, to Coroners as to Jus tices of the Peace; and both are subject to a discretionary fine by the Court, for fail ing to observe the above regulations. Fe• lollies without benefit of clergy; are ousted of --` that benefit under all circumstances consequen on the indictment. Clergyable felonies shall be punished in cases of confession, of malicious, re fusal to plead, of challenging peremptorily above twenty of the jury, as if it verdict of guilty had passed. Accessories may be tried in any 'Court which has jurisdiction to try the principal, al though the act whereby they become necessaries may have been committed beyond that jurisdiction. An accessory may be tried where the principal has been convicted, although he may not have been attainted, or may have been pardoned, or allowed his clergy. A large tribe of technical absurdities, by which justice had been materially obstructed, are swept away by the two last provisions. So, offences committed on the boundaries of two counties, may be tried in either. Offences com mitted in a stage coach, or on board a vessel em ployed in inland navigation, may be tried in any county through which the coach or vessel passed. The property of partners is better secured by its being unnecessary to mention the name of more than one of the firm. In trials for robberies of public property of any sort, the property may be laid in the inhabitants of counties, the overseers of the poor, the surveyors of highways or turnpike trustees, respectively, without specifying any indi vidual names. No technical defects of indictments shall be allowed to revers• the judgment once obtained. One most i opert int amelioration of the law is, that prosecutors and witnesses shall he allowed their expellees in all cases of felony. So in most cases of misdemeanor; likewise in prosecutions in the Court of Admiralty ; and, what is of equal moment, all who have been ac tive in the pursuit and apprehension of offenders, may be recompensed at the discretion of the Court, without their claims to indemnification in the separate character of prosecutors or witnesses being thereby defeated. If men lose their lives in the course of -ucl► endeavours to promote the ends of public justice, their wives, children, or patents, us the case rn►y be, nre en titled to adequate cnmpensatiur►. Et is difficult to calculate the additional security given by such a measure to the admic►inistration of justice, if due cgre be exercised to preve►►t its becoming a tNtilp. tation to conspiracy against innocent men. Such, so fur as we have had time to look into them,are the principal clause!i of this most important sim plification of our criminal law, which embraces within 16 pages matter more effectual and valu able than was previously tiiiperscd through se veral hundred ; and substitutes one short and consistent Aet of Parliament for about 30 bad ones, which it repeals. [MORNING rosr.J The discussion which recently took place In the French Chamber of Deputies on the subject of the African Slave Trade, and the assiStance supposed to have been afforded to the Turks, by the authority or with the connivance of the French Government, presents several features worthy of remark. That two subjects so un connected anti dissimilar should have been dis cussed together, upon the occasion of presenting a petition relating to only one of them, seems to indicate that the course of deliberation amongst our neighbours is more under the influence, of 4 lively •and somewhat irregular fancy, and less strictly subject to the restraints of system anti . of forms, than is perhaps quite consonant to the proper steadiness and gravity of a legislative body. Whilst we lament that assistance should have been rendered in any instance to the cause of the Turks by Officers bearing the commission of his Most Christian Majesty, we cannot with hold the acknowledgment that the explanations afforded by the President of the Council fully exonerated the French Government front either participation or connivance with the offenders ; nor can we refuse to admit, so long as neu trality is the avowed policy of the State, that the efforts of individuals to aid the cause either of Turkey or Greece ought to be equally unob structed. We cannot say, however, that the defence made . hy M. de Villele fur the conduct of France, in respect to the African Slave Trade, was equally successful. If, as that Minister, indeed allows, the existing laws are not .efficacious for thu suppression of that crime, we cannot subscribe to the force of his argument, that the existing precautions to pre vent the Slave Trade are us great as the freedom of commerce will allow. We rather think that the freedom of commerce is as Well understood and us zealously guarded in Englund us in any country whatever ; and yet the precautions and penalties which'England has adopted to prevent that abominable trait', are the •ttictest anti the heaviest known to her laws. The use of this argument was therefore an egregious over sight on the part of the French Minister. [NEW TIMES.] We are happy to see that the French Minister has been able to clear himself effectually of a char g a which we own weighed heavily upon him in our estimation. ft bad been stated broadly in the French Papers, that the Government of that country had itv.lf recruited troops for the 'l"ba of Egypt to tight against the Greeks. -- "' Whatever our whibis may 1 for the ul turtate success of the G ree ks, we tnive not pre tiqied to say that the Great Powers of Europe re bound to aim in their favour ; but s ou the other hand, we think they are bound not to take part against their fellow Christians they are bound to maintain a strict neutr►►lity between the Turks and the Greeks, If political considerations pre vent them from supporting the latter. M. de Villele has at length stood forward publicly to disavow any aid having been given to the Turks by the French marine. On the other hand he asserts, and we trust correctly, that great numbers of Greeks have been saved from slavery, by finding a refuge on board French ships. We are certain that such would be the case with English naval officers if an op portunity ,presented itself : and we are pleas• ed to believe that similar sentiments actuate our neighbours, the French. M. de Villele admits that one French Captain took a sum of money as freight from the Egypti an Pac h a; bat he adds, that this officer was recalled and de graded, for having acted in a manner so contrary to the instructions of his Government. The naval officers in those Seas, both French and English, are placed in an unpleasant dilemma by the unfortunate state of the Greek Government. Taking it for granted, that that Government wishes to restrain piracy, it has not the power to do so. The Pirates commit their excesses'under the Greek flag, and the - French or English Officers cannot restrain them without exposing themselves to the chance of reproach for taking part against Greece. Allowance should be made for this circumstance by all who are disposes! to censure the Naval Officers of either country ; and, upon a fair view of their conduct, we be ieve it will be found that if the b a l ance o f lieu . rality has been inclined either way, it has been favour of the Greeks. HONOURS UNSOLICITED.—The Grand Duke BORIS GLIDENOW, who reigned during the years 1597 and 1605, was very much afflicted with the gout. At a certain period, when he suffered very severe pains, he caused it publicly to be proclaimed at Moscow, that he would reward with extraordinary favour and great riches the man, whoever he might be, that would relieve him from those pains. It seems that no one voluntarily appeared to earn the favour of the Grand Duke ; and, indeed, no wonder, for a Doctor had his whole existence at stake in those times, in Russia, if his core failed upon some high or noble patient . ; and Gudenow was in the habit of making the surgeon, as if he considered the latter as absolute master of nature, responsi. ble for the result of his art. The wife of a cer tain bojaat, or counsellor of the cabinet, who re. ceived very harsh treatment from her husband, tookihe advantage of this public edict of the Gr►nd Duke, to revenge herself in a cunning manner on her cruel husband. She therefore had the Duke informed that her husband possessed an infallible cure for the gout, but that he was not sufficiently humane to Impart it. The ho• ,jeer was immediately sent for to court, and strict. ly examined ; he declared by all that was holy that he was onacquainted with such a remedy, and had not the slightest knowledge of medicine. But oaths would not avail him ; Gudenow had him severely whipped and confined. When, shortly after, he was again examined, he re- pealed the same declarations, adding, that this trick was probably played upon him by his wife ; the butte had him whipped a second time, but mere severely, and threatened him with death, if he did not speedily relieve him from pain. Seised with terror, the boiaar was now entirely at a loss what to be at. Ile promised t& do his best, but requested a few days, in order to have the necessary drugs gathered. Having with, great difficulty had his request granted, he sent to Ozirbak, two days' journey from Moscow, in order to get thence all sorts of drugs which were to be bed there. lie sent for a cart load of them, . . mixed them all together, and prepared herewith a bath for the Duke, in the hope of his blind cure proving successful. Gudenow, after having used the bath, really found some relief, and the bojaur hnd his life spared him. Nevertheless, because he had known such an art, denied his knowledge of it, and refused his assistance to the Grand Duke,- the letter had him again thoroughly whipped, and, after being entirely recovered, he gave Itim a new dress, two hundred rubles, and eighteen slaves, by way of a present. In addition to this, he seriously admonished the Doctor never to be revenged on his wife►. It is said that the hojaar, after this occurrence, lived many years in peace and happiness with his spouse. A TERRIULE CATASTROPHE took place at Mor laas last week. About 400 persons were ashen bled i n a hall above the Maisie, to draw for the army, when a moth.paten beam suddenly gave way, the floor fell with a tremendous crash, and precipitated the whole of those present, with the exception of about thirty, who were near the chimney or in the recesses at the windows. The The tables and planks were broken, w oa d flowed on all sides, and the complaints of the unfortunate persons who were wounded were heard amidst a thick cloud of dust. Almost th e whole population hastened to assist them. More than 150 persons have been hurt ; a young woman died the day after ; and five or six persons are still in the greatest danger. Others will pro bably be lamed for life.—( French Paper.) Dutstmc.—On Saturday four of the crew of the Dundee and Perth Shipping Company's smack Perth, and members of the Seaman's Union, were apprehended, and brought before Provost Brown raid Captain Blair, us Justices of the Peace, for examination. They had signed written articles, agreeing to go with the Perth to London and back to Dundee, for 31.; but, on 'Friday, they refused to go, unless, they received 31 - 35., the rate of wages fixed by the Society. The consequence was, that the Perth was pre vented from sailing before Saturday morning, The four apprehended admitted the breach of the contract; but stated, that they must abide by the oath of the Society which they Inid taken. The Justices informed them that the oath 'ts as against the laws of the country, and sentenced them to thirty days' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (WILMA LL. James Wolfe, a bay,;asbrought up for examination yes terday, before Mr. Alderman GARRATT, on suspicion of hav ing committed numerous robberies in the vicinity of the Royal exchange. On Monday evening, it appeared, the prisoner and another boy got over the roof of the house of Messrs. Getty, Redden, and Co., solicitors, in Angel-court , T hro g morton.street, and entering the attics by the trap door, they stole three pairs of boots, with which they were making their escape down the staircase of the adjoining house, when Wolfe was met by the man who has the care of the premises, but his accomplice es caped. Wolfe was immediately secured, and when ordered to account for the possession of three boots that were found upon him, he said he did not know how he had got them. An exami nation of the premises, however, soon disclosedthat fact, for on entering one of the garrets, it was perceived that two panes of glass had been broken to reach the fastening of the window, and there were ample traces of his having broken into that house, as well as out of that of Messrs. Getty and Co. Two boys iad been noticed crawling about the roof of the latter pre mises three or four days before. Yesterday Mr. James Haddan, jun. attended, and identified two of the boots found upon the prisoner as his property. Mr. Bland, one of the proprietors of Garraway's Coffee-house, said, he had but a few minutes before observed a notice in a newspaper of the first examination of the prisoner, and he was not prepared to mike any charge against him ut present; but be tween four and fi ve o clock on Saturday afternoon,. all the waiters' clothes, and some other property, had been carried away by two boys, who were supposed to have entered and to have escaped by the attic windows. One of Messrs. Esdaile's clerks, who was going to the clearing house, saw the boys on the roof, hut did not give an alarm, not supposing they were thieves. Two or three other persons had also seen them, and if the prisoner should be remanded, he would most probably be identified. On the same afternoon the premises of Messrs. Mar tin, Stone, and Co., in Lombard-street, were broken in to in precisely t he: same manner, and the contents of the upper rooms thoroughly ransacked. A selection of the property was carried off by the thieves. Hesketh, the city officer, stated that in the course of last week a tobacconist's, in Lombard-street, and Tom's CofNe-house, in Cornhill, received a similar visitation. Smith, the beadle of Cheap . ward, said, he had Wolfe in his custody a short time ago, hav ing beep found in the upper part of the house of Mr. Saunderson, in the Old Jury, to which he had gained access over the root's of other buildings, but he then escaped punishment. Mr. Alderman GARUATT said, that under these circum. stances lie would certainly remand the prisoner for further ex amination. BOW-STREET. A man named Iredgebury, well known as a conductor of dog-fights, bull-baits, rat-killing, and other of the elegant sports which some of our " Corinthian capitals of polished society" delight to patronise, was brought before Titomaa Esq. on Tuesday evening, charged by a Mr. Fox, a broker in Earl-street, with a Violent assault. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Fox and his man, that' Wedgebury occupies some rooms in Green Dragon-yard, St. Giles's, where he and his assistants, his bear, his badger, and his bull dogs, and the other brutes of his establishment, eat, drink, and sleep in perfect amity together. Wedgebury, it appeared, had hired these rooms of a man who was Himself an under-tenant, and to him he paid the rent, but the under tenant was arrested and sent to prison, and then the original landlord came to him for the rent of the premises, for the whole of the time that he had occupied them. Wedgebury, however, said that he had paid one man, and he would be t rigif p arted with his money a second time for the same . Repeated applications meeting with the same answer, the landlord empowered Mr. Fox to levy a distress upon, Wedgebury's goods and chattels, and on Tuesday morn ing he went with his man and his warrant, but met with a reception perfectly novel even in his unpleasant culling. Wedgebury's apartments are up a flight of stairs, and there is a door at the bottom, which Mr. Fox found fastened. .lie contrived with some difficulty to get the door open, and the first person he saw was Wedgebury, standing at the top of the stairs, and the latter, the moment he saw Mr. Fox, called out, " bring the bear; they are come." The broker having no desire to encounter such an opponent, paused for a moment, while his man, with bristling hair, " nudged" him 'behind, and advised a retreat if his master did not wish to be eaten up alive. Mr. Fox, however, possessed a little courage, though perhaps rather of a negative kind, and he remained at the foot of the stairs, until in about a minute a huge black bear with a chain about his neck, made:his appearance upon the landing-place, under the guidance of Wedgebury, who held the Chain. Having fixed Brum, who growled as if in defianCe of the besieging party, in a convenient position, he called to " Bill" to bring the dogs, and in a moment four or live sturdy bull-dogs, amongst winch was Turk, who assisted in baiting the lion Nero, ready for any mischief which their master chose ,to urge them to, made their appearance. Thus entrenched, Wedgebury laughed and bade defiance to Fox and his man, and told him if he bad no desire to be torn to pieces by the dogs, or hugAed t o death by the bear, he had better " nash", (go away). Mr. Fox destred'a parley, and !proposed terms ; but Wedgebury, knowing that he could have nothing to fear, except from an armed three, refuSed to accede to anything tiut an uncenditional raising of the siege. Mr. Fox refused to stir from the place, and remained there for several hours, occa atonally holding a dialogue, composed of a mixture of threats and entreaties, with Wedgebtay, to the great amusement of a crowd of 100 or 200 persons who had assembled' to witness the ftm. At tenth Mr. Fox mustered courage enough to ap proach within a yard of the bear, and suddenly making a grasp at Wedgehury's leg (he was then standing•by the aide of bruin), he attempted to drag him down stem, but the-tor turer of' animals knew also the use of his fiste, and h gave Mr. Fox a pat on the head , which sen t him with considerable rapidity to the bottom of the stairs. 'Mr. Fox then came direct to this office, and procured a warrant for the assault. Steveas, a - police constable, armed with the warrant, his stuff; and a brace of pistols, proceeded to the place, and found Wedge bury with all his forces drawn up as before. Not choosingao run the risk of a fraternal hug from' the bear, or of being pinned by the nose (lie possesses a very substantial one) by the dogs, lie showed his staff' and the warrant, and called upon Wedgebury to surrender quietly. " I'll tell ye what, master," said Wedgehury, " I have a very great respect for all you Bow-street gentlemin, because I knows as how you must do your sluty, but 1 eonsiders that in this here instance ram in a right cause, and b—t me if I'll be took by you nor nobody else, though you have got a slang (warrant) agen :so pie may us well monis (another phrase for " go.") Stevens re. Itionstrated upon the folly of his resisting the civil power, but finding that of no use, he threatened to shoot the bear at all hazards. This threat wrought a wonderful change, for fah-lost without another word Wedgebury surrendered at discretion. In his defence he admitted that he gave Mr. Fox a " pat" on the head, but said he considsced that he was only acting in his,own defence.—lle watt held to bail for his appearance at the Sessions. A man named It rown , the owner anti driver of what is called a town-cart, was summoned to answer the complaint of Mr. Powell, a medical gentleman, for wilfully driving against his cabriolet. Mr. Powal was turning the corner of St. Martin's-lane, in his cabriolet, when he Was met by the defendant's cart, who had whipped his horsea until he had lost all command of thorn, and the cart came against Mr. Powell's vehicle, nearly upset it," and caused considerable damage. Mr. Powell Jumped down, and ran after the cart to take the number, and the de fendant assaulted him and knocked him down. Mr. Al Wen ' said, the defendant ought to be indicted for the assault as well as fined ; but lilt. Powell did not wish to. press that charge, and he was fined 20s. and costs, which the complainant requested to be put in the poor-box. Sir It. BIIINIE took occasion to mention, that in conse quence, of the notice which the gentlemen of the press had been kind enough to take of his suggestion, that the- At. sent by for time use of the boy Williams, 'if his.should prove to he a deserving object, could not be' better disposed of than by being put into the office charity.bdx, lie had received a note from " It." giving the writer's full acquiescence. MA ItYLEI3ONE-OFF ICE. A day or two since Mr. Kean, a foreign lace-merchant, re. siding i n p ortma n-street, Portinan-square, came to the office, evidently under feelings of the deepest indignation, to cm plain of a violent outrage which had been committed upon the person of his Fon, a youth of 16, an apprentice in the house of Stevens and Crofts, haberdasher* and laceven No. 63, oxford- street, by four of the shoptnen of that est ablishment. Front the representation then made, Mr. itawrawsosr issued a warrant against t h e persons accused, and they were yesterday brought up in the custody of Morris, the officer, and shortly after Mr. Kean and his son arrived, the examination of the charge commenced. The defendants gave their names Robert John Dentition", John I ,: ast , j eo .ph Bennett, and William Douglas. . Willi a m Dennis' Kean, the prosecutor. .a tine-looking latl, was then sworn. Ile stated as follows—" My father apprenti. s o me a bout eighteen months since for tbur years, to Messrs. Stevcds and Crofts, and gave one hundred guineas as Firemidm. employed in the ware morns. a .i n w d a: h t e 'or the first twelvvintinth ~ cmsintier of the time in the shop. Mr. Stevens is dead, but the business is carried on by Mr. Croft, who lives s at Blackheath, but comes to the shop doily. On Monday m orning la t, - ahout eight o'clo c k, I h a d d uste d the shop-cotin ter, when the defendant East came into the shop and brushed and dusted Ids clothe on the counter, which had been just cleaned. I rebuked him for so doing, and he called inc " dirty grumbling rascal." I said he was as bad ; he then threat• ened to give me a thrashing before all the young men in the ;hop I merely said, " I hoped they would see justice done," mean ing that he would not he allowed to beat me unjustly. I went up stairs to dress myself in half an hour after, and, as I was passing the room where East and the others were breakfast mg, I heard him say, " will flog him with the whip."-- I went to my room, where two other young men were dressing, and after they hail left, East came into the room. I was then. undressed, in my shirt. Ile had a whip in his hand, and struck me across the legs, using very opprobrious language, and daring me to strike him. I refused to have any thing to do with him. Ile went to the door and called up the other three, who came into the room and seized me, Douglas by the back of the head and neck, Dcnniford by the left arm and hand, and Bennett by the right : they flung me on the bed, and East flogged me with the whip. I struggled and cried out, but he continued flogging me until the blood flowed from my thigh. I told them it was shameful to treat me as they did. I was dreadfully beaten, and such are the injuries which I received, that I am covered with weals and bruises. Mr. Kean senior, stated that the boy's abdomen and thighs were in a very dreadful and contused state. Mr. RAWLINEION and Lord MowrTonn (who sat on the bench) retired with the youth to a room, and there witnessed the marks of violence on his person. On their return, East ei..tred into his defence. He recited various acts of disobedience on the part of the boy, who refused to obey his orders, and at• tend upon the customers, but swore at him, and being a youth, he (East) did not like to strike him with his fist, but cautioned him if he was saucy that he would " whip him," and the boy continuing his impertinence, he certainly did whip hint. Mr. It awurtsost observed, upon ordering them all to find good bail to answer the charge at the Sessions, that he was astonished such a shameful outrage could at all be accomplish ed in any respectable tradesman's house, upon an apprentice, who was the son of a respectable merchant, who had given a large premium with him. The worthy Magistrate also cen , ' cured the practice of employing men in milliner's shops, whero the duty could be performed more properly by women. The defendants procured bail in the course of the day, QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday one Thomas Fruit, who resides with his brotherr in-law, a farrier, at No. 29, in Rochester-row, neir Vincent. - square, came before the Sitting Magistrates (Mr. MARICLANI? and Nit. Wilt Tr.), to answer to the specific charge of buying a' tolerably fine mare, before the anima . got stinted, the property of Thomas Davis,of Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell, which had been stolen from him under circumstances of somepeculiarity. Mr. Frost, at the outset, said that he went about the coun- . try with oranges and nuts, for which he brought back old Iron or any thing else ; and further, that he was in the habit of buy ing horses and selling them. ' Thomas Davis, the owner of the mare, deposed that he was& fishmonger by trade, and that he had purchased her, about nine months ago, for Iti guineas. He unfortunately lost the animal on Friday lust, at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, when lie fetched her from the stables he rented in Pewter. platter-yard, St: John's -street, in order to exhibit and exchange her. Witness did not know the person who was employed to examine the horses, as he was going to make an exchange fur the mare ; but that person got upon her while trying her in Wellington-square, and suddenly rode away. Just at this mo ment a friend of the horse tryer's caught hold of witness's arm, saying " that the horse which the latter bought in exchange was a kicker ;" when witness said to his brother William, wha was standing by, " Where's the man gone?" Witness still supposed that the rider had taken the mare home for him; but be never saw either the mare or the man until he learned that the former was in Westminster. Lee, an officer from Hatton-garden, had searched for the stolen mare, upon a warrant, on Monday night, at Skipper's, who is Frost's brother, and lives in Coburg-row, 'rothill-fields, when Skipper told witness that the mare was gone to Green. wick, but would return at night. Defendant had refused to give up the mare at prosecutor's house, yesterday morning, inconsequence of which refusal he was given in custody to bee, when Mr. Sergeant Sollon sent , the matter fur investigation at this office. Frost, in his defence said that he purchased the mare from some person in Sniitthield.market fur 41. They settled the business at some public-house in Goswell-street ,• defendant lied never known the man before, but should know him again ; and he believed, if he were at liberty to look after hips, that he should be able to find him. Mr. WHITE—WeII, Frost, I don't much like your story t we, in general, do not understand the selling of Hiles in the you have described lucre ; and therefore .you must fi nd us go od that sureties od she w te a‘ be no fo t r u t i l e iceniin g propertyt the of the pro per in your person to the accusation of buying this mare, an d sup- D a vis now a ppli e d f or t h e f avouro f h av i ng t h e ma re restored to him, pitiable as was her condition, which went g ranted on t he 1 understanding that herself and m as t er wou ld a ppear when nn tine, ui lin t o answer g her. wanted fur the furtherance of ju s ti ce . _. UNION-HA Tab Yesterday George Fairfax, a builder, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, H. J.Cll.6lllEttg. Esq. in the custody of Johns, the officer, charged With having fraudulently ob, tained the sum of five guineas from Mr. Jones, a linen.draper,r of, lligh-street, Southwark, in the following manner : The complainant stated, that on the 14th inst. the prisallq, came to his house, and said that he called Mr the purpose o informing him that he bad some houses to dispose of situate d in Hackney, the leases for which were then in his possession. He ch a asked ser, as lilt. he s lo Jones d plied, that he . had no objection to purchase the property, in the to i e c t h i have het whether rheefewreile. inclined T he l'be complainantee pur chaser, a e m oz eri let h el i y m utitiltantcutiirttebehroedus. houses s l w n loft/neer of all incumbrances , and produced a parchment, which lie said was the original lease of the premises. The complainant o th r the prisone r be being g exa mined the document, which appeared to be what it was re pp following agreement was forthwith. entered " 1 agree to sell to Mr. Jones four houses in Temple-stree t. Hackney-road, for the sum of 2551., finished for immediat e occupation, with locks, bolts, &c. into rell e b n y te tt a i n ut d rs t i l es e ~ vi z . : (Signed) . " HEOUGE Fatttrare.” prisoner 10s. as a deposit, anti on the 17th he p a id him a fusilier sum of 5/. upon the production of the lease of the premises' when it was arranged that the following Tuesday should be ap - On the day in pointed for the completion of the purcha se , a nd the payment us question the complainant said he p aid the purchase-money. In the int er i m , h owever , o n Monday last, the day before ;the remainder o f t h e p ur chese-monels amounting to 2501. was to hav e b een paid, Air, Jones walk ed over to Hackney, in order to vi e w th e premises, and in t he course of examination , he mentioned to a p ers on that was ob the spot his intention of becoming the purchaser of the fo nr houses from Mr. Fairfax. The individu a l a lluded to said t hat Fairfax had nothing whatever to do with any of the proper t y in question, when the complainant obs er v e d that the inform ant must be mistaken, for he could 'prod uce the lease which had been made over to him by th a t pe rs O n . M r . Jones, howeve r, was assured that the lease he held f ront . Fairfax was a fabri cated one, and that the original lease of the premises was is the possession of a gentleman mined Harrison, to who m the prisoner had mortgaged the property sw ee time before for th e the sum of 2001. Mr. Jones, upon this information, lost no tilt ° in making the necessary inquiries, when he ascertained the above facts to be Perfectly true; and he added; that he now brought w end evidence to prove •that the lease upon Wilk" the prisoner endeavoured to defraud him of the sum of 25 54 but out of which very fortunately, added the, complainant, be only received the 51. 10s., was a fabricated and false token. Mr. Harrison was then called : he prothreed, the original lease of the premises in question, upon which lie stated lialent the defendant the sum Of 200/. on mortgage on the7th of last Octo ber. The fictitious lease uas also produced, which viali well calculated to deceive, as it was precisely worded as the or , - ginal, with the seals and the signatures of penions as wittios es. who were not in existence. The Magistrate observed, that it was a new species of fraud; anti called on the prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, to enter into his own reeognizanee in the sum of 80/., and two sureties of 401. each, to appear :mile ensuing Sessions, to aniwc ,- the charge, in default of which he was committed. HMV'S. At Bu*, nn th 1-ith of January last, the lady of Major .1• M. Hutchinson, of a dauOtter.. 'On the 20th instant, at Paris, In the rut Hirliepanse, tilt lady of Janie's Arthur IVilson, M.D., of a son. . , 'MARRIED. On Monday, the 27th instant, O. Dillon, 04+00 Ma r l Anne, eldest daughter of 1; Collinson Esq. of SavillellSee• Monday, the. 20th instant, at ertiey, byllut Very iler4. Dr. Hue, Dean of ti, island, uncle to the brute, Joh n _ tituu mood, to Jane Penrose, eldest daughter of Williero Breton, Esq., of Mount Pleasant. MED. On the 27th Ins thn t, at his hoUse, Clapton, itidlesex, Joseph Belisha, Esq, On the' 21101„Iohannall, the infant daughter of the Lite JA" 'l3ttrehell,- E.g., of Foley-Pit - lee t On the 28th intent, Air. Joseph Smith, of Longasno, Wes - Smithfield, saddler, aged 70. • " Printed. and Pubil4hed fo the PitoritteTnits, at the SUX• ' Orrice, Nu• 1 12, Strand by J, n. CAitaT,Alita.